tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950097146074968395.post519802168878801697..comments2023-10-08T04:16:25.218-04:00Comments on The World's Beefiest Blog: It's About PeopleBeefy Muchachohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03030529703415235545noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950097146074968395.post-71939301317955610572012-05-20T12:30:45.042-04:002012-05-20T12:30:45.042-04:00I was also just re-watching Milk the other night. ...I was also just re-watching Milk the other night. The Gay Day thing and Milk are not some distant memory, ya know? They're fairly recent happenings in the grand scheme. Frankly, watching Milk, I got the distinct feeling that we really haven't come THAT far. But then I thought about it and it's not the homophobes we should be expecting to change. It's that it's now a GOOD move for the President to support gay marraige. <br /><br />There is no doubt in my mind that it's no coincidence that JayZ, Obama and the NAACP have all come out in support at nearly the same time. This was a calculated move to try and get Obama support with out losing whatever black voters might not like that. <br /><br />I think we're in for more turbulent years ahead. Just Google "Kotaku Straight White Male". It was an article describing SWM privelege as playing a video game on the easiest difficulty, which I thought was a really good analogy. The game is still hard and you're not automatically ahead but you start out with more stat points, etc. Now look at the COMMENTS. More comments then I have EVER seen on a Gawker Media site (and that's including all the Trayvon posts). Why? Because all the SWM who read it are OFFENDED because the article is RACIST and SEXIST to THEM. And there are myriad tales of hardship wrought because of their milky white skin. Gimme a freakin' break. I think this is a tiny look at what we are headed for as the majority slowly isn't anymore. People were bringing up that there were more minority babies born and it had just happened that week! <br /><br />But anyway. I'm in the camp that thinks all this ridiculousness is the dying thrashes of a society that is dominated by SWMs who will not go down quietly. I think it will get worse before it gets better. The important thing is people keep blogging their support, keep voicing it, keep telling your kinda racist friend that he's being kinda racist. <br /><br />/ramble<br /><br />[note: My favorite bit from Kotaku comments--A woman said something to this SWM who is bitching about how his life is harder BECAUSE he is a SWM about how, when he goes on a date, he doesn't have to worry that his date might rape him. His response? Yes, well if we went on a date you would be thinking I might be a rapist. Don't you see how that hurts me? See, we all have our problems.<br /><br />It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.] <br /><br />[note 2: can you tell I'm bored at work? :)]Anniehttp://twitter.com/djphobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950097146074968395.post-91172781054938599672012-05-20T12:29:53.039-04:002012-05-20T12:29:53.039-04:00A very logical and reasoned argument...
...in res...A very logical and reasoned argument...<br /><br />...in response to something completely devoid of logic.<br /><br />I was just discussing this with Wes the other night, actually, because he brought up Obama having endorsed it which I DO feel is pandering. Obama isn't worried about getting more votes in the sense of swaying people to his side. He needs his (words that are going to be tired fast in 2012 ahead...) base to be energized. Get out the vote and all that. Republicans just don't have trouble actually getting people to the polls like Dems do. That's why it's pandering. He has waffled on this, if memory serves--first saying he supports it but then saying he did not support repeal of DOMA and gay people should just get a special gay thing for them (civil unions, whatev). This is a smart political move for him--the winds they are a-changing gay marraige-wise. People who otherwise wouldn't have said anything about it are supporting it (JayZ, otherwise Conservative Fbook friends...). With the NAACP recently endorsing it, I think we are well on our way to a sort of tidal wave of support which is going to make it LESS socially acceptable to decry it and those voices will get much more quiet (eventually). <br /><br />I mean, Mittens is like hella anti-gay. He wants to take away all their civil rights and he has a lot of rich guys who are giving him millions to try to do so. The fact is, this COULD lose him some votes. And Obama knows he can just grab them with this move.<br /><br />I guess it's pretty unreasonable to want him to not play the politics game but trust this is a chess move.<br /><br />Now, as far as all the arguments you've outlined--they are quite good. Succinct, to the point, logical and blow their arguments away. The problem is---they don't really believe these things. Rush says this shit all the way to the bank and his little nasties just parrot it back. The truth is it's just different. Different makes people very uncomfortable. They've spent their lives in an environment where it was okay to hate gay people and now they're supposed to just reverse. I am not making excuses at all, as I know plenty of people who are older and take no issue. But, as I was telling Wes, the day is never going to come where his mother says, "Well, I don't like it because it's not what the norm has been my whole life and it makes me uncomfortable." Nor does she probably even RECOGNIZE that as the reason. It's complicated.<br /><br />Take for example, this. They are trying to build a large luxury apartment building in my neighborhood. People are PISSED. They don't seem to have any good reason why---which isn't to say they don't have "reasons" (traffic, blah and blah) but they're just not important enough to garner the heated and emotional response. But they're not going to be at the Town Hall meeting yelling, "Well I've lived here my whole life and I'm scared that things will change!" OR "Well I don't see how it will BENEFIT me so I don't want it!"<br /><br />And that's really the issue to those that aren't just blatant homophobes. It won't help them, it will change things so why bother. But that is where the winds are changing--those that didn't support it because there was no benefit to them are changing their position because now it can HURT you socially to not support it. So they say things like, "Yes, I support it but it's not a federal issue" and blah blah. But the fact is before they would've left out the part about supporting it. <br /><br />I really recommend you look up more information on Gay Day at Disney. Do you know it's history? Really interesting. For the first gay event they had at DL the company sent memos to all the employees to be careful and expect a lot of trouble (of course there wasn't any more than usual).Anniehttp://twitter.com/djphobnoreply@blogger.com